Badly and Damned

Badly

Badly adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: blood donors are badly needed this time of year

Damned and badly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Damned" instead an adverb "Badly".

Nearby Word: bad

Damned

Damned adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: it's a damned fine day

Badly and damned are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Badly" instead an adverb "Damned".

Nearby Words: damn, damnable, damning, damnation, damnably

Both words in one sentence

  • Library of the Damned is a website/blog that riffs fanfiction, particularly of the badly written variety.
  • In The Master and Margarita, Margarita badly wants to find her vanished lover, but when the Devil offers to grant one request to thank her for having played hostess at his ball, she instead asks for mercy for one of the damned souls she met at said ball.
    Source: Selfless Wish
  • That most of the aforementioned damned actually did something to deserve ending up there, whilst those who end up there by default because God sets such impossibly high standards of behaviour seem not to be too badly off, keeps Satan on the Grey side of the show's Black and Grey Morality.
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